Andrew Niccol Quotes
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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What I do is I do my job.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
